Re: [webmin-l] Simple DNS and Sendmail questions

[Brian C. <we...@we...>]

On a Sendmail system, the situation below would be handled like this:

bo...@do... would have a system username of bob and mail for 
bo...@do... would be aliased to bob via the virtusertable
bo...@do... would have a system username of bob2 and mail for 
bo...@do... would be aliased to bob2 via the virtusertable

I have no experience with Qmail or Postfix but I know Sendmail does not 
provide POP3 or IMAP services... I use Dovecot for those services... 
Since both Sendmail and Dovecot need to be able to authenticate users, 
having one username/password source (The user account) makes sense...

Brian

Michael Ryerse wrote:
> Thanks.  I think I checked /named/chroot/var/named, but I'll double check.
>  
> As for Sendmail requiring a user, I beleive that is entirely true, as 
> I am sure there are thousands of sendmail servers out there that host 
> multiple domains and come across situations where they have a mailbox 
> for bo...@do... <mailto:bo...@do...>, as well as a mailbox for 
> bo...@do... <mailto:bo...@do...>, who are entirely different 
> users, and since the users have no use on the system other than for 
> mail, there is no need to create a system account, because this is a 
> mail server.
>  
> Regardless, I might find myself trying Qmail or Postfix simply because 
> the documentation for Sendmail seems to be scarce.  It shouldn't take 
> this long to find simple steps to do something as simple as create a 
> user's mailbox.
>
>  
> On 8/31/06, *Brian Case* <we...@we... 
> <mailto:we...@we...>> wrote:
>
>     Michael Ryerse wrote:
>     > Hi, I just got a VPS server with FC4 and webmin.  I have been
>     setting
>     > up BIND and noticed that the three zones I created did not cause a
>     > zone file to be written in /var/named.  /etc/named.conf seems to be
>     > getting updated, but points to zone files that do not exist, and I
>     > think that this is causing name resolution to not work.  Any
>     suggestions?
>     >
>     >
>     > Also, with Sendmail, I was wondering if someone could point me
>     to some
>     > documentation on how to create mailboxes via webmin for sendmail.  I
>     > do not want to use system users for mail, just want
>     mailboxes.  There
>     > doesn't seem to be a straight-forward method to do this in webmin.
>     Regarding the BIND question, look in /var/named/chroot/var/named for
>     your zone files... I think BIND is chrooted in Fedora by default...
>
>     Regarding the Sendmail question, I don't think there is a way to
>     have a
>     mailbox without a user... An alias, sure, but not a mailbox...
>
>     Brian Case <http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webadmin-list>
>